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Anyone can throw a seed in the ground. Any decent grower can keep a plant healthy and rake in a harvest. But even with clones from the same mother plant, the end product can vary widely in effect. Most growers control for the major variables in cultivation, like strain, light and nutrients. That isn’t enough…

It’s believed to be the largest insurance award ever given to a legal marijuana business. Industry insiders also see the event as another indicator of how rapidly the legal cannabis industry has matured, and how much corporate America’s “take” on cannabis companies has changed. Earlier this month the Santa Barbara Independent reported that a Southern…

For recreational marijuana sales in California — the nation’s most populous state, and the nation’s oldest and most entrenched marijuana market — it was never a question of billions. It was always a question of “how many” billions. And, just four months into the era of recreational cannabis sales, we now have an idea: At…

The cannabis industry is at a crossroads. What was once primarily a social justice movement has transformed into a multi-billion industry, despite the direct conflict with federal law. But thanks to federal regulations that are science-light and prejudice-heavy, there is still a whole lot we humans don’t know about cannabis and how it works, and…

Another lawmaker has been found to be citing fake news when debating against marijuana reform. Louisiana State Rep. Dodie Horton found herself citing a story claiming that 37 people died in Colorado on the first day of legal marijuana sales while debating against an expansion of the state’s medical marijuana program. When confronted with the…

Terry Booth didn’t expect his life would come full circle, thanks to marijuana. He sold pot in high school, peddling quarter ounces for C$25 ($19) to help out his dad. He spent the next two decades working as an electrician and entrepreneur, and planned to semi-retire to the golf course after taking a step back…

Regardless of whether U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions ever plans to launch an official crackdown on legal marijuana, his scare tactics are working. In some parts of the country, those financial institutions that have been ballsy enough to do business with the cannabis industry since the days of President Obama are beginning to throw in…

At the end of March, a Costa Rican government agency issued a report with the surprise finding that use of tobacco has declined to the point that it shows a “tendency toward disappearance” in the coming years — and that cannabis is rapidly replacing it. Guillermo Araya, director of the Costa Rican Institute on Drugs…

DENVER — Get ready for more cone zones! Paving season is underway in Denver. This year, the Mile High City will spend $27 million dollars to repave arterial and collector streets. A chunk of that cash, $1.2 million, is marijuana money. Denver Mayor Michael Hancock said Denver receives about $13 to 14 million a year…

It’s fair to say that Jeff Sessions did not achieve his station in life by listening to reason. As U.S. senator, Sessions achieved a reputation as a bizarre but ultimately harmless outsider with, ahem, retrograde views. As attorney general, when he is not being publicly excoriated by President Donald Trump for failing to use the…